Electric-light-bowl hanger



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ELECTRIC LIGHT BOWL HANGER Filed May 4 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 WITNESSATTORNEYS Oct. 21 ,'1924;. 1,512,757

w. B. GODDARD ELECTRIC LIGHT BOWL HANGER Filed May 4 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet2 WITNESS IN VEN TOR 1%7 Mar/rm. a 600mm Patented Oct. 21, 1924.

WILFRED B. GODDARD, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS DAYCOMPANY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

ELECTRIC-LIGHT-BOLWL HANGER.

Application filed May 4,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILFRED B. GODDARD, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city and county of-San Francisco, State ofCalifornia, have invented a certain new and useful Electric-Light-BowlHanger, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to electric light fixtures and moreparticularly to suspended bowl fixtures.

It is one of the objects of the present invention to provide an improvedsupporting mean for carrying, in a suspended position, a translucent orother illumiating bowl in which there may be arranged a cluster ofelectric lamps. An important object of the invention is to provide forthe rigid interlocking of the supporting means with the rim of the bowlso that without detaching any of the supporting means from the bowlproper, one or another of a series of suspending chains may bedisconnected from a respective hook forming a part of the supportingmeans or hanger, and so that the bowl may be tilted down edgewise orlaterally to facilitate access to the interior thereof for cleaning orother purposes.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a rigidsuspending and supporting structure in the form of an attach mentadapted to be readily secured to the rim of a bowland which willfacilitate and enable, the mounting of auxiliary, or ornamental, orexterior light, attachments to the bowl or to the supporting means.

Another object of the invention is to provide a supporting means thatcan be easily collapsed and compactly folded for packing and shipping,and readily adjusted to and lock in an adjusted positlon for supportingan attached bowl.

Another object of the invention is to provide a standard equipment orsupporting means which, while being made of uniform size and ofinterchangeable structural features, also provides for ready adaptationof a given standard equipment to light bowls of different dimensions bythe provision of a set. of arms. of stock size, which are adapted to besevered or broken at predetermined points indicated by weakened portionsof the arms at the desired points to render;

them shorter than the stock or standard length.

Another object of the present invention,

1921. Serial No. 466,692.

is to provide a supporting means attachable with equal facility tosuspension chains or to a central supporting rod as may be desiredwithout change of'construction of the several parts.

A still further object of the present in vention is to provide in asupporting means for bowls, an improved safety chain hook which willpermit of the relative tilting or swinging of the engaged link of achain with respect to the hook without danger of the disengagement ofthe hook and the links. In this connection it is a further object toprovide a chain hook having a contracted mouth to restrain disengagementof the chain and, further, to provide a chain hook having, opposite theend of the hook, a stop lug or shoulder to prevent disengagement of thechain when'it is clear of the hook curve.

The invention possesses other objects and features of advantage, some ofwhich, with the foregoing, will be made manifest in the followingdescription of the preferred form of the invention which is illustratedin the drawings accompanying and forming part of the specification. Itis to be understood that it i not intended to limit the invention to theembodiment shown by the said drawings and descri tion as variations maybe adopted within tie scope of the invention as set forth in the claims.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a bowl suspended by means of chain, thebowl being broken away to show a portion of the supporting means.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a bowl suspended by means of a centraltube fixture.

Fig. 3 is a perspective showing an erected bowl hanger or support; thebowl being omitted for clearness.

Fig. 4 is a erspective showing the dismounted and disconnected actuatingelements of the hanger.

Fig. 5 is a perspective of one of the safety hooks.

Fig, 6 is a perspective of a central rod ongaging stirrup.

In electric light fixtures of the type embodying a suspended bowl, it isvery desirable to provide means which will enable the bowl to besafelydisengaged from one of the supporting chains, when these are used, sothat the bowl can be tilted or suspended on the remaining chains toenable access to the interior of the bowl for clean- ,in and shipment,and yet readily assembled through which is passed a central during thecleaning or other necessary ma- 7 nipulation thereof. Again, it isdesirable to provide a fixture which can be substantially permanentlyand rigidly mounted in the bowlby attachment to rim thereof, and yetprovide for the connection of the supporting means either to suspensionchains or to a central suspending rod or tube.

The present invention consists of a unitary, organized structure forminga suspension and supporting means capable of being compactly arrangedfor storage, packo and erected in place on a given bowl, such forinstance as is indicated at 2 in Figs. 1

and 2' which may be provided with any suitable type of rim adapted to beengaged with a complementary form of hook, one type of which is heredisclosed. The hooks 3 are provided on the outer ends of substantiallyradial arms l of which any suitable number may be utilizedina set.Preferably the hooks 8 are adjustably mounted on the outer ends of therods or arms t and may be secured at the desired position as by means ofset-screws 5. The set of rods or'arms 4 are adapted to be simultaneouslyand uniformly, radially shifted, inwardly or outwardly to secure aninterlock of the partson the rod ends with the rim of a bowl, andpreferably means are provided by the manipulation of which the severalarms are concurrently shifted and locked in their given position. i

In the present construction the inner ends of the arms 4 are mounted forguided movement upon a bearing member 6 which is shown as provided withupwardly extending and equally spaced circumferential lugs 7 throughwhich the arms l extend and are arranged in a common plane. The bearingplate is preferably in the form of a flat disc screw 8 forming a pivotabout which is rotatable a. flat plate or disc: 9 from which extends ahandle or lever 10, in the plane of the disc 9, which latter lies justabove the center bearing 6. I

The inner ends of the arms 4 are suitably connected to the disc 9to beactuated thereby when the latter is rotated, so that the -arms willshift longitudinally and substantially radially with respect to thepivot; 8.

A simple, practicable and inexpensive form of connection is obtained bybending the inner ends of the arms& upwardly at right angle, as 43, topass through apertures 9 in the disc 9. By resting the inner ends of thearms on the top of the center plate 6 and applying the disc 9 'over theupturned ends of the arms, the pivot screw 8 may be utilized to hold thedisc 9 and the arms in proper assembled relation when lock nut or nuts11 are screwed up on the lowerend of the screw 8, below the center plate6.

In operation when the actuating disc 9 is rotated by the handle 10, soas to bring the ends 4 of the arms 4; into juxtaposition wits respectiveguides 7 the arms are moved outwardly and, conversely, when the ends 4are moved away from the bearing lugs 7 the arms are drawn inwardly,therethrough. i

When the several arms have been adjusted to the desired position tosecurely grapple with the rim of the bowl they may be locked securely bysuitable means. A form of means may include an extension. or part 12secured to the arm 10 and extending laterally therefrom to interlockwith an adjacent arm 1-, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The locking element12 may consist of a piece sheet metal having its upper edge notched a at13 to receivethe contiguousarm e when the parts are in position to belocked. The

lever 10 and the part 12 are relatively yieldable with respect to thearm 4 that is engaged so that disengagement may be secured by slmplydepressing the lockmg member 12 to carry it out of engagement with thecontiguous arm 4. I

in case the bowl is to be suspended by means of chains G, then the bowlhooks 3 are preferably provided with chain hooks 15 extending upwardlyto receive the conand disengagement of the chain from the hook, when theengaged link is thrown to certain angular positions with respect to thehook. In Fig. 5 a preferred form of hook is shown as comprising a part15 with its end laterally enlarged or made of T form as shown at 16, thelength of the head portion being sufliciently greater than the slot ofthe links as will preventthe links from slipping ofi the end of thehook.

An additional security is provided by provision of a stop lug 17disposed opposite the hook end 16 and forming therewith a contractedmouth 18.

One or more electric lamp sockets or other ornamental attachments ordevices may be secured to the hanger, for providing for the attachmentof these appliances, In the present case the bowl hook 3-is providedwith a downwardly er'tending arm 3 'for any desired appliance and theupper arm of the hook 3 is threaded at 3to receive an appliance. 7

fixture by I chainsfi the rigidly mounted 'supporting or hanging meansis adapted to be interlocked with a central drop tube or other pendant Pas indicated in. Fig. 2, in which case the pendant device P is providedat its lower end with a connection in a form of a cap or plate 19 havinga plurallty of downwardly extending and circumferentially spacedengaging hooks 20 to be passed underneath the 1nner portions of the arms4 to hold the same; the hooks 20 being disposed in a position to passover the outer edge of the center plate 6 of the hanger.

The hanger organization may be constructed or assembled as a unitutilizing a set of arms 4 which are of stock length for given sizes ofbowls. In order to provide for the ready adaptation of a given stocksize of hanger organization to a bowl of different size the several arms4c are weakened transversely at points along the arm so that they may bebroken at any of the weakened points to provide a shorter arm of desiredlength; such weakening being formed or obtained as by notches 4? alongthe arm, at any of which, the arm can easily be broken.

When, for any reason, it is desired to have access into the interior ofthe bowl it is only necessary to detach one of the chains from its hookand the released edge of the bowl lowered while the bowl is suspended bythe remaining hooks and chains. If it is de sired to dismount the bowltogether with the organized hanger then all of the chains aredisconnected from their hooks and the bowl lowered away. The bowl alonemay be disengaged from the several hooks by releasing the locking deviceand throwing the actuating disc or part 9 in such position as will clearthe hooks from the rim of the bowl still leaving the organized hangerconnected to its suspension means as the chains or the pendant P.

lVhat is claimed is:

1. An electric light bowl hanger comprising a bearing member,substantially radially disposed arms, bearing in said member, bowl rimengaging hooks on the outer ends of said arms, a plate pivoted to saidbearing member and to which the inner ends of said arms are pivoted, alever extending from said plate'for rotating the plate with respect tothe bearing member and means for securing the lever to one of the arms.

2. An electric light bowl hanger comprising a bearing member, aperturedupstanding ears on said member, arms extending through said ears andhaving their inner ends disposed over said member, an actuating elementpivoted to said member and to which the inner ends of said arms arepivoted, bowl rim engaging hooks on the outer ends of said arms andmeans for rotating the actuating element to slide the arms through theears.

3. An electric light bowl hanger comprising a bearing plate, a series ofarms guided in a common plane on the plate for longitudinal adjustment,a disc pivoted on the plate and connected to said arms for adjustingthem uniformly, and means for locking the arms when adjusted andincluding a lever on said disc having a hooking engagement with one ofthe arms.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

VILFRED B. GODDARD.

